republic-os/legislation/us/states/ms/2022/hb-530.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "The \"Strategically Accelerating the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers (START) Act of 2022\"; create."
description: "The \"Strategically Accelerating the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers (START) Act of 2022\"; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 530"
citation: "Mississippi HB 530 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f794403d-b546-4a50-8397-0ef66eeeecd4"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Bain.xml"
source_hash: "31a66269963685b697d2cc1d9e0c329ba575caf6e29e864f8a0de7824b8e8592"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
---

# Mississippi HB 530 (2022) — The "Strategically Accelerating the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers (START) Act of 2022"; create.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0530IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 530** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB0530.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0530PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/pdf/sam/HB0530_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/0500-0599/HB0530SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **114–6** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **117–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage as Amended — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Bain — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Barton — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Calvert — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Clarke — cosponsor (person)
- Cockerham — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Creekmore IV — cosponsor (person)
- Crudup — cosponsor (person)
- Darnell — cosponsor (person)
- Eure — cosponsor (person)
- Faulkner — cosponsor (person)
- Felsher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford (73rd) — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Gibbs (36th) — cosponsor (person)
- Goodin — cosponsor (person)
- Gunn — cosponsor (person)
- Harness — cosponsor (person)
- Hines — cosponsor (person)
- Hood — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Karriem — cosponsor (person)
- Kinkade — cosponsor (person)
- Lancaster — cosponsor (person)
- Mangold — cosponsor (person)
- Massengill — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight — cosponsor (person)
- McLean — cosponsor (person)
- Mickens — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)
- Oliver — cosponsor (person)
- Owen — cosponsor (person)
- Pigott — cosponsor (person)
- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rushing — cosponsor (person)
- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
- Scoggin — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stamps — cosponsor (person)
- Steverson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tubb — cosponsor (person)
- Tullos — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-01-13T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-20T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Education;Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** DR - TSDPAA: ED To AP
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Immediate Release
- **2022-03-02T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2022-03-03T06:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2022-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,McCarty,Read
- **2022-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Bennett,McCarty,Felsher
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named DeBar,Bryan,Hopson
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2022-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-22T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f794403d-b546-4a50-8397-0ef66eeeecd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).